M iri R ubin . Cities of Strangers

A published and expanded version of Miri Rubin’s Wiles Lectures in 2017, Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe is a capacious, beautifully written, and passionate engagement with urban medieval history and, by implication, with the history of migration to cities today. A distinguished and prolific medievalist, Rubin has already written splendidly on the central aspects and social contexts of medieval spirituality. In her new book, a bold entry into a new field, she shows the same mastery of the primary and secondary literature she displayed in her previous work. Here her citations range from F. W. Maitland to articles published in 2019, as well as a vast number of primary sources. Rubin also shows a remarkable geographical range, focusing on urban life from the Hanseatic cities in the eastern Baltic to Wales, from Scandinavia to Iberia. And she mines this literature with unfailing politeness and recognition of those...

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